A47611:2016
Spiritual melody
Spiritual melody, containing near three hundred sacred hymns. By Benjamin Keach, author of Trhopolgia, pastor of the Church of Christ meeting on Horsly-down, Southwark
London: printed for John Hancock, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5 Within his Breast, and therefore did Resolve for to restrain The precious Clouds that watered it With sweet and blessed Rain:
6 Or make his Ministers who preach His good and holy Word, ⟨p. 283⟩useless to it, so that they might To it no good afford.
6 Or make his Ministers who preach His good and holy Word, ⟨p. 283⟩•seless to it, so that they might To it no good afford.
O then, ye Saints take heed and fear Lest you should barren prove; or if you do, God may from you His presence quite remove:
But if that you who are his Church Bring forth the Fruit of Grace, He never will deal with you thus, Your glory to deface.